The Evening of the Good Samaritan
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The District Attorney got up, and very neatly put his chair back from where he had drawn it round the better to see them.
The Baroness said: “Will you find John, Mr. Forester? I do not think so.”
He stood a moment looking down at her. Then he said coldly: “I don’t think it will be difficult to find a man who enjoyed his work as much as he did.” He turned. “Mrs. Reiss.”
He said only the name, but by the little gesture of his head, both Martha and Covington understood that they were to follow him as he left the room.
The Baroness closed her eyes and did not re-open them until she was alone.
By the activity in the vestibule, the self-assured presence there of several detectives and uniformed police, Covington realized that Madame Schwarzbach had been already under arrest when he and Martha arrived.
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TAD’S ORDEAL WAS OVER.
For Martha a new one began that night: she suffered a nervous collapse and was hospitalized for several months. But by the end of the school year she was able—with Tad and Sylvia—to go abroad again, and in Ireland that summer she began a sure and steady recuperation.
Tad was able to spend a part of the summer with Covington in Holland. He was accepted, starting with the fall term, at London University.
Madame Johanna Schwarzbach died by her own hand and in her own house. In time, John Ferrari was extradited from Venezuela. He is now waiting trial for the murder of Nathan Reiss.
About the Author
Dorothy Salisbury Davis is a Grand Master of the Mystery Writers of America, and a recipient of lifetime achievement awards from Bouchercon and Malice Domestic. The author of seventeen crime novels, including the Mrs. Norris Series and the Julie Hayes Series; three historical novels; and numerous short stories; she has served as president of the Mystery Writers of America and is a founder of Sisters in Crime.
Born in Chicago in 1916, she grew up on farms in Wisconsin and Illinois and graduated from college into the Great Depression. She found employment as a magic-show promoter, which took her to small towns all over the country, and subsequently worked on the WPA Writers Project in advertising and industrial relations. During World War II, she directed the benefits program of a major meatpacking company for its more than eighty thousand employees in military service. She was married for forty-seven years to the late Harry Davis, an actor, with whom she traveled abroad extensively. She currently lives in Palisades, New York.
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